To be honest, in our decade of tutoring, the physical space at Academia has never been the priority. There were a few rules – it had to be safe, clean, well-lit, well-ventilated, and free of distractions. There were a few aesthetic ideals we sought out, such as the Danish concept of Hygge, which refers to […]
Celebrate yourself! Each milestone passed is the start of another new adventure on your journey.
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Our takeaways from the 2022 paper, where the curriculum began to shift in tandem with global trends as predicted.
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You did well.
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We’re proud of your performance.
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Happy Chinese New Year!
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新年快乐
万事如意
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The Story of Science: Part 1
When we think about Science, we often have visions in our heads about hands-on experiments. Mixing chemicals together. Soaking flowers in coloured liquids. That’s fun. But as we are finally learning in 2023, fun isn’t learning, and when the good times end and tough times begin, fun isn’t even fun.
Many philosophers — even philosophers of science — would tell you that Science, in fact, is a story. It’s a story about how the world works. Where things come from. Once upon a time, people would tell stories about the world, such as: stars were heavenly beings, the world rested on a turtle, courage came from the stomach. Today we have better stories. Our scientific theories are stories that work, and they enable us to create technology that vastly improves our lives.
Here is one of the greatest stories ever told in Science: the story of special relativity. It’s a story we can tell just by reading a book—that space and time, instead of being separate entities, are unified and can be dynamically curved to create the effect known as gravity.
At a seminar at MIT I took decades ago, I remember another story that blew my mind: the story of why we experience time as linear and unidirectional, unlike space. The story goes: our minds were designed to run along the slope of entropy that began with the Big Bang, and therefore could be a psychological illusion created by our brains which consciously interpret the entropy of the universe as the passing of time.
So why am I talking about this now? I believe we’ve suffered from some of the most problematic misconceptions in education for a long time now, one that fails to acknowledge that Science is, first and foremost, a story about the world. This is especially true for children, who already experience the world and understand it in practical terms. What they don’t experience, however, is the story, and what many students cannot do is tell this story.
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Academia is pleased to announce the imminent launch of the beta testing phase of our latest Cogito product.
Infinite Drills. For Levels 1 & 2.
No VC funding. No gimmicks. Just what we knew you wanted after a decade of communication with you. And we’re only just getting started.
More details to be revealed as we move from alpha to beta testing. To our clients, thank you — you are at the heart of all we do.
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The future is here. And we designed it yesterday. 2023 takes a bold new step into a higher level of performance to create the most amazing human being possible — that, after all, is what being Singaporean truly means. #academia ... See MoreSee Less
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Each year we’ve released an annual report to show how far we’ve come. This year, we’ve accomplished so much that it is hard to know where to begin. Instead, we’re looking to the future with quiet confidence. Here are 5 major pillars of our development next year.
1️⃣ Global Gifted Programme: We continue to incorporate the newest learning pedagogy using English as the base programming layer for substantial cognitive development
2️⃣ Implementation to innovation: We will move out of implementation phase to AI-integrated delivery of learning skills in the 3 Big Picture Domains: Speaking, Critical Reading, and Personal-Persuasive Writing
3️⃣ True Literacy: A paradigmatic pedagogical shift from automatable skills to real, humanistic skills
4️⃣ Human-centric Education: Using the latest AI tools to empower each educator to do more than ever
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360° Academia Universe. Classic Humanistic Education. Designed for the Digital Singularity.
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The Art of PSLE 2022: A Retrospective 📺
As the 2022 World Cup comes to a head, let's relive those all-round good feelings when we smashed it head-first into our goals and scored. We're talking about The Art of PSLE 2022 — are you nostalgic yet? 🥹 Full Video: cogito.brightspace.com/d2l/le/lessons/8687/topics/7141 ... See MoreSee Less
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